Today’s economic environment has only increased the ways in which businesses, both big and small, rely on accountants. From bookkeeper to business strategy, accounting professionals are taking on much larger roles than the traditional number crunching stereotypes portray and increasingly find themselves in business advisory roles, partnering with stakeholders to not just keep the records, but interpret financial information to help improve decision making and drive business outcomes.  

Lightico, leader of next-generation digital customer interactions, announced today a $12.6 million investment led by Oxx, with participation from Capital One Ventures and Harmony Partners, to accelerate adoption of its digital customer interaction platform and bringing its total amount raised to $27 million.

QUODD Financial Information Services (“QUODD”), a business unit of Financeware, a NewSpring Holdings platform company, and IHS Markit have formed a strategic partnership to provide a unique market data offering for the Trust and Wealth Management sector. The offering combines QUODD’s 20 years of expertise in listed market data and delivery with IHS Markit’s industry leading fixed income pricing and reference data in an integrated, flexible delivery platform. 

Technological innovation is the core element of structural growth. Solactive and Goldman Sachs both aimed to develop an index, the Solactive Innovative Global Equity Index, which takes into account five key disruptive themes that are redefining the business world, the global economy and society, and, therefore, the investment landscape. The Solactive Innovative Global Equity Index will serve as the underlying for Goldman Sachs’ new Goldman Sachs Innovate Equity ETF.